Re: Coppicing Alder?

["Graeme Williams" <graeme@powerlink.co.nz>]

Hi Harmon,

Haven't had the opportunity to investigate coppicing Alder, but would guess
that as all young fast growing wood is similar to willow, one could expect
to experience much the same problems.

Given that there is huge experience in the selection of willow species and
years of knowledge in their actual cultivation, I doubt if you could
convince farmers to change over to Alder as an energy crop.  All they are
interested in is tons / acre whatever the biomass, and it is our job to find
out how to turn it into gasifier fuel.

Will be back in Northern Ireland about September and will keep it in mind to
check out the Alder option as it may be more appropriate in some places.

Doug Williams
FLUIDYNE GASIFICATION
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harmon Seaver" <hseaver@cybershamanix.com>
To: "Graeme Williams" <graeme@powerlink.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:40 PM
Subject: Coppicing Alder?


> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:34:35PM +1200, Graeme Williams wrote:
> > Problems with coppice willow gasification can be overcome with a
correctly
> > designed gasifier, and again the correct cutting size of the chip.  If
you
> > haven't done so, you can read about our work with the fuel on the
Fluidyne
> > Archive www.fluidynenz.250x.com
> >
>    Read your piece there on coppicing willow and the problems inherent in
that
> -- too bad none of that is mentioned on the sites touting willow as wonder
> crop. Do you have any idea if alder would be better? It has other
advantages,
> IIRC, it's nitrogen-fixing for one.
>
>
> --
> Harmon Seaver
> CyberShamanix
> http://www.cybershamanix.com


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